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Consciousness as a liability in Peter Watts's 'Blindsight'
A reader praises the novel's disorienting portrayal of fighting superintelligence and its question of whether consciousness helps survival.
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A reader says Peter Watts's science-fiction novel 'Blindsight' makes fighting superintelligence feel disorienting, as though readers cannot quite follow what is happening. They highlight aliens that move when humans cannot consciously perceive them and the story's exploration of consciousness as a cognitive bottleneck against a non-conscious alien race.
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